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History Chapter 1-19

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Definition
artifacts   show
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show To move from one location to another  
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show A way of life shared by people with similar arts, beliefs, and customs  
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civilization   show
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show The practice of bringing water to crops  
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show Early Native Americans who built large earthen structures  
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show The use of tools and knowledge to meet human needs  
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show A type of society in which ancestry is traced through the mother  
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Deganawida   show
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Iroquois League   show
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Ghana   show
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Islam   show
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show A period characterized by feudalism and the manor system  
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feudalism   show
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show A series of wars to capture the Holy Lands launched by Europeans in 1096  
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show A time of increased interest in art and learning  
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show A machine that mechanically prints pages, invented by Johannes Gutenberg about 1455  
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Reformation   show
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show A person who plans the course of a ship by using instruments to find its position  
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Christopher Columbus   show
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missionary   show
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mercantilism   show
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show An explorer who set out in 1501 for a sea route to Asia, but instead came to a land that was later named for him, America  
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conquistadors   show
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Hernando Corts   show
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show The Aztec emperor who governed much of Mexico when the Spanish arrived looking for wealth  
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Henry Hudson   show
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John Cabot   show
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Spanish Armada   show
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show A Quebec colony that grew out of a fur-trading post established by the French explorer Samuel de Champlain  
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show A grant of Native American labor to the Spanish colonists in the Americas  
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haciendas   show
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mission   show
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plantation   show
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Columbian Exchange   show
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slavery   show
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show The forced removal of Africans from their homelands to serve as slave labor in the Americas  
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show The part of the triangular trade route that brought captured Africans from Africa to the Americas  
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show Laws passed by the Spanish government to prevent slave rebellion and to regulate the treatment of slaves  
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racism   show
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show A business or project organized by investors who pool their wealth in order to turn a profit  
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show A written contract issued by a government giving the holder the right to establish a colony  
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show The first permanent English settlement in North America  
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John Smith   show
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show A person who sold his or her labor in exchange for passage to America  
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show Created in 1619, the first representative assembly in the American colonies  
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Bacon's Rebellion   show
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show A group that rejected the Church of England, sailed to the Americas, and founded the Plymouth colony in 1620  
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Mayflower Compact   show
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show These Church of England reformists sailed to the Americas to escape ill treatment from James I  
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Great Migration   show
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show Laws written in 1639 by a Puritan colony in Connecticut that expanded the idea of representative government  
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show He set up a colony in Rhode Island that guaranteed religious freedom and the separation of church and state.  
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show She challenged church authority in Massachusetts, was brought to trial, and fled to Rhode Island in 1638.  
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show A 1675-1676 war between the Puritan colonists and the Native Americans over land ownership  
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show Governor of the Dutch colony of New Netherland, he gave up the city of New Amsterdam to the British in 1664.  
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show A colony with a single owner-for example, New Netherland when the Duke of York drove out the Dutch  
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show A wealthy Englishman who created a colony for Quakers in America with land given to him by King Charles II  
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show A religious group with neither ministers nor bibles, who treated Native Americans fairly and welcomed diversity  
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royal colony   show
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show The far western region of the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies that ran along the Appalachian Mountains  
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show A farm that produces only enough food for a family to eat and trade  
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triangular trade   show
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show Laws passed by Parliament, beginning in 1651, to ensure that England made money from its American colonies' trade  
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smuggle   show
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show A crop grown by a farmer to be sold rather than for personal use  
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show A mill in which grain is ground to produce flour or meal  
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show A variety of people  
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show A craftsperson, such as a weaver or a potter, who makes goods by hand  
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show A westward-bound produce vehicle with wide wheels, a curved bed, and a canvas cover  
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show A plant grown in the Southern colonies that yields a deep blue dye  
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show Supervisor of her father's South Carolina plantation at age 17, she introduced indigo as a successful crop  
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William Byrd II   show
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show A worker hired by a planter to watch over and direct the work of slaves  
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show A 1739 uprising of slaves in South Carolina, which led to the tightening of already harsh slave laws  
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show A mountain range that stretches from eastern Canada south to Alabama  
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show The point at which a waterfall prevents large boats from moving farther upriver  
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piedmont   show
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show A large group of families that claim a common ancestor  
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show A deerskin that was a unit of value, or money, in the Backcountry  
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show A beginner who learns a trade or a craft from an experienced master  
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Great Awakening   show
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Jonathan Edwards   show
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George Whitefield   show
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Enlightenment   show
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Benjamin Franklin   show
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show An English philosopher who argued that people have natural rights to life, liberty, and property  
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Magna Carta   show
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Parliament   show
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Edmund Andros   show
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show The overthrow of English King James II in 1688 and his replacement by William and Mary  
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English Bill of Rights   show
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show A hands-off policy of England towards its American colonies during the first half of the 1700s  
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John Peter Zenger   show
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French and Indian War   show
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Albany Plan of Union   show
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Battle of Quebec   show
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show Treaty that gave North America east of the Mississippi River to Britain and ended French power in North America  
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show A 1763 revolt by Native Americans against British forts and American settlers who were moving onto their land  
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show An order in which Britain prohibited its American colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains  
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King George III   show
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Quartering Act   show
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Stamp Act   show
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show A member of the Virginia House of Burgesses who called for resistance to the British-imposed stamp tax  
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Sons of Liberty   show
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writ of assistance   show
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Samuel Adams   show
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show In 1770, a violent fight between British soldiers and colonists where five colonists were killed  
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committees of correspondence   show
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show A 1773 protest of the Tea Act where colonists dumped 342 chests of tea into a harbor  
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show A force of armed civilians who pledged to defend their community during the American Revolution  
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Intolerable Acts   show
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show A 1774 meeting of delegates from all colonies except Georgia to uphold colonial rights  
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Lexington and Concord   show
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show Term for American colonist who supported the British in the American Revolution  
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show Term for American colonist who sided with the rebels in the American Revolution  
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show Cannons or large guns  
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show May, 1775 assembly that authorized the Continental Army and approved the Declaration of Independence  
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show The 1776 document in which the colonies declared independence from Britain  
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show A respected political leader and thinker who was chosen to write the Declaration of Independence  
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show Commander of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War and the first president of the United States  
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show A professional solder hired to fight for a foreign country  
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strategy   show
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show A prearranged meeting, often an assembly point for troops  
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Battles of Saratoga   show
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ally   show
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Marquis de Lafayette   show
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bayonet   show
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show Camp where Washington's army suffered from cold and hunger; became a symbol of the hardships of the War  
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desert   show
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privateer   show
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John Paul Jones   show
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show British general who fought in the South during the Revolutionary War and who surrendered in1781  
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guerrillas   show
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show A person morally opposed to war  
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Battle of Yorktown   show
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show The treaty that ended the Revolutionary War, confirmed the independence of the U.S., and set its boundaries  
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show The belief in a government in which decisions are made by elected or appointed officials  
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show In 1781 she helped to end slavery in Massachusetts by suing for her freedom in court and winning  
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show Preacher who helped start the Free African Society; founded the first African Methodist Episcopal Church  
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Wilderness Road   show
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republic   show
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Articles of Confederation   show
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tyranny   show
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show Legislation that divided the land west of the Appalachian Mountains into six-square-mile plots  
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show Region northwest of the Ohio River; Congress divided land into sections and sold them to settlers  
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Northwest Ordinance   show
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Shays's Rebellion   show
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show A meeting held in 1787 to consider changes to the Articles of Confederation  
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James Madison   show
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show A proposed plan for a national government that called for three branches and a two-house legislature  
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New Jersey Plan   show
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show An agreement to establish a two-house legislature with different forms of representation  
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show An agreement to count three-fifths of the slave population for determining representation and taxation  
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federalism   show
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show People in favor of the Constitution; believed in shared power between national and state governments  
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Antifederalists   show
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The Federalist papers   show
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George Mason   show
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show The first ten amendments to the Constitution that consist of a formal list of citizens' rights and freedoms  
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show To swear in or to induct into office  
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judiciary   show
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show Passed by Congress to create a court system, including a six-member Supreme Court and lower federal courts  
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show Group of president-appointed heads of departments; created by Congress to help the president  
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tariff   show
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national bank   show
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show The 1794 clash over the Northwest Territory in which the federal army defeated the Native Americans  
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Treaty of Greenville   show
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show Farmers' protest of the government's tax on whiskey, a product vital to the economy of the backcountry  
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French Revolution   show
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neutral   show
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Jay's Treaty   show
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Pinckney's Treaty   show
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show Relations with governments of other countries  
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show An organization that promotes its ideas, influences government, and elects candidates for office  
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Federalist Party   show
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show Group that supported a limited national government and strict construction of the Constitution  
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show A 1797 incident in which French officials demanded a bribe from U.S. diplomats  
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show A series of four laws enacted in 1798 to reduce the political power of recent immigrants to the United States  
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show Theory that claimed that states had rights that the federal government could not violate  
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radical   show
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show Supreme Court Chief Justice appointed in 1801; upheld federal authority and strengthened federal courts  
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show An 1803 Supreme Court case that established judicial review  
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unconstitutional   show
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show The principal that the Supreme Court has the final say in interpreting the Constitution  
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show President Jefferson's 1803 purchase of territory from France that doubled the size of the United States  
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Meriwether Lewis   show
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show Corps of Discovery officer who selected the expedition team; a diplomat, map-maker, fort-builder, artist  
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Lewis and Clark expedition   show
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Sacagawea   show
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show Explorer of the southern part of the Louisiana Territory, the Rocky Mountains, and the Great Plains  
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show Between 1803 and 1812, British policy of seizing American sailors by force to serve in the military  
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Embargo Act of 1807   show
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Tecumseh   show
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show Term for a westerner who called for and supported the War of 1812  
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War of 1812   show
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show Officer who led the U.S. to its most important naval victory during the War of 1812, on Lake Erie  
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Battle of the Thames   show
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Francis Scott Key   show
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Treaty of Ghent   show
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show A 1789 immigrant from England who built the first successful water-powered textile mill in America  
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Industrial Revolution   show
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show A method of production that brought many workers and machines together into one building  
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Lowell Mills   show
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show A machine part that is exactly like another part  
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Robert Fulton   show
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show Inventor of the telegraph, a machine that uses electricity along a wire to send messages over long distances  
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steel plow   show
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Eli Whitney   show
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show A machine invented in 1793 that cleaned cotton much faster and far more efficiently than human workers  
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show A religious folk song, often created and sung by African Americans  
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show Leader of an 1831 armed revolt against slavery in Virginia  
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show Feeling of pride, loyalty, and protectiveness toward one's country  
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Henry Clay   show
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show A plan introduced in 1815 to make the United States economically self-sufficient  
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show Completed in 1825, this waterway connected New York City and Buffalo, New York, improving U.S. transportation  
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show He won the presidential election of 1816 as a Democratic-Republican, helped by the rise in nationalism  
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show Loyalty to the interests of one's own region above loyalty to the interests of the nation as a whole  
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Missouri Compromise   show
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show A policy of U.S. opposition to any European interference in the Western Hemisphere, announced in 1823  
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show New England's choice for president in the fiercely disputed race of 1824, he became the sixth U.S. president  
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show A military hero, candidate in the 1824 presidential election, and winner of the 1828 presidential election  
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show The idea of spreading political power to all the people, thereby ensuring majority rule  
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spoils system   show
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Sequoya   show
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show An 1830 act that gave the government power to negotiate treaties to force Native Americans to relocate west  
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show Present-day Oklahoma and parts of Kansas and Nebraska to which Native Americans were sent under U.S. treaties  
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Trail of Tears   show
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John C. Calhoun   show
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show An 1828 law that upset Southerners by raising the tariffs on raw materials and manufactured goods  
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show The right of a state to reject a federal law that it considers unconstitutional  
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Webster-Hayne debate   show
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Daniel Webster   show
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show Term for a state's withdrawal from the Union  
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inflation   show
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show Vice-president to Andrew Jackson and elected president in 1836, he inherited Jackson's puffed-up prosperity  
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show A time when economic fears prompted people to demand that banks exchange their paper money for gold and silver  
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show A severe economic slump  
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show Political party formed to oppose Jackson's policies and the political power held by the chief executive  
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William Henry Harrison   show
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mountain man   show
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show A person who buys land at low prices hoping to sell it in small sections at high prices  
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Santa Fe Trail   show
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show A trail settlers used to migrate west-from Missouri to the territory west of the Rockies and north of California  
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Mormon   show
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Stephen Austin   show
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Tejano   show
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show Mexican president and general who governed the Texas colony and fought to keep it under Mexican rule  
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Sam Houston   show
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show An 1836 battle in which 183 Texans and 25 Tejanos lost to a Mexican army of thousands after 12 days of fighting  
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Lone Star Republic   show
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James K. Polk   show
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manifest destiny   show
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show The 1846 rebellion by Americans against Mexican rule in California  
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Treaty of Guadalupe de Hidalgo   show
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show A vast region given up by Mexico in 1848, including three present-day western states and parts of four more  
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forty-niner   show
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Californio   show
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John Sutter   show
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California gold rush   show
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show A person who settles in a new country  
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show The deck on a ship where immigrants found cheap passage and deplorable conditions  
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push-pull factors   show
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show A severe food shortage  
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show A negative opinion of a group of people, not based on facts  
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nativists   show
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romanticism   show
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show A 19th-century philosophy that taught that the spiritual world is more important than the physical world  
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show Peacefully refusing to obey laws one considers unjust  
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show A meeting designed to reawaken religious faith  
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Second Great Awakening   show
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temperance movement   show
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labor union   show
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show To stop work; a strategy workers use to force employers to meet their labor demands  
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show The movement to end slavery  
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show Public speaker and lecturer for the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society; he published an autobiography of his slave experiences  
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show An abolitionist speaker who drew huge crowds and who won a court battle to regain her son from slavery  
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show A series of escape routes used by slaves heading to the North from the South  
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Seneca Falls Convention   show
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show The right to vote  
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show An 1846 proposal that outlawed slavery in any territory gained from the War with Mexico  
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Free-Soil Party   show
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Stephen A. Douglas   show
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Compromise of 1850   show
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show A novel published by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852 that portrayed slavery as brutal and immoral  
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show An 1850 law passed to help slaveholders recapture runaway slaves  
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popular sovereignty   show
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show An 1854 law that established the Kansas and Nebraska territories and designated them as open to a vote on slavery  
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John Brown   show
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"Bleeding Kansas"   show
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show The political party formed in 1854 by the Northern Whigs and other opponents of slavery in the territories  
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John C. Frmont   show
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Dred Scott v. Sandford   show
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Abraham Lincoln   show
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show Site of a federal arsenal in Virginia that was captured in 1859 during an antislavery revolt led by John Brown  
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show A political party's statement of beliefs  
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show To withdraw, as a state from the Union  
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show The alliance formed in 1861 by the Southern states after their secession from the Union  
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show Chosen president of the Confederacy  
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Crittenden Plan   show
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Abraham Lincoln   show
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civil war   show
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the Union   show
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show South Carolina fort under federal control that was attacked by the South, marking the start of the Civil War  
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show Virginia resident, talented military leader, and commanding general of the Army of Northern Virginia  
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show Term for Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri-slave states that bordered free states and did not secede from the Union  
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show A term coined to show that Southern cotton was important to the world market and to the Southern economy  
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Anaconda Plan   show
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show When armed forces prevent the transportation of goods or people into or out of an area  
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show An 1861 battle of the Civil War in which the South shocked the North with a victory  
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show Conditions and practices that promote health  
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show Number of people killed or injured  
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rifle   show
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mini ball   show
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ironclad   show
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show Victorious Civil War general in the West who became commander of Union armies in 1864 and president in 1869  
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Battle of Shiloh   show
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show Soldiers on horseback  
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show An 1862 week-long battle in which the Confederacy saved the Southern capital, Richmond, from Union troops  
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show The bloodiest battle of the Civil War, in which neither side advanced, but 25,000 men were killed or wounded  
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show The first American president to be assassinated  
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Frederick Douglass   show
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Emancipation Proclamation   show
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show One of the first African-American regiments organized to fight for the Union in the Civil War  
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Jefferson Davis   show
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Copperheads   show
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conscription   show
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bounty   show
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income tax   show
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greenbacks   show
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Clara Barton   show
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show An 1863 Civil War battle in which the Union victory ended Lee's hopes for a Confederate victory in the North  
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show A failed, deadly, direct attack on Union troops led by General Pickett during the Battle of Gettysburg  
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show Union general who won important victories in the West, opening up the Mississippi River for travel deep into the South  
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show He lost Richmond, the Confederate capital, to General Grant on April 3, 1865 after a 10-month siege.  
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show An 1863 Union victory in Mississippi, in a town that was the last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River  
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show President Lincoln's 1863 speech to dedicate a cemetery; in it he said we are a nation where "all men are created equal"  
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William Tecumseh Sherman   show
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Appomattox Court House   show
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Thirteenth Amendment   show
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show Congressmen who supported using federal power to rebuild the South and give African Americans full citizenship  
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Reconstruction   show
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show Federal agency set up to help former slaves after the Civil War  
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Andrew Johnson   show
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show Laws passed by Southern states that limited the freedom of former slaves  
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show Rights granted to all citizens  
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Fourteenth Amendment   show
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scalawags   show
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carpetbaggers   show
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show The process of accusing a public official of wrongdoing, or improper conduct, while in office  
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show A school set up to educate newly freed African Americans  
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contract system   show
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sharecropping   show
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Ku Klux Klan   show
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show To kill a person as punishment for a supposed crime, without a trial  
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Robert B. Elliott   show
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Ulysses S. Grant   show
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show An 1870 amendment that said reasons of race, color, or servitude could not keep voting rights from citizens  
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show Financial crisis in which banks closed and the stock market collapsed  
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Compromise of 1877   show
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show Unsettled or sparsely settled area of North America occupied largely by Native Americans  
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show A town that has a sudden burst of economic or population growth  
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long drive   show
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show The first cowhand, who came from Mexico with the Spaniards in the 1500s  
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show A person willing to take the law into his or her own hands  
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show Land set aside by the U.S. government for Native American tribes  
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show An 1864 attack in which more than 150 Cheyenne men, women, and children were killed by the Colorado militia  
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show An 1876 battle in which Sioux and Cheyenne wiped out an entire force of U.S. troops led by George A. Custer  
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Wounded Knee Massacre   show
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Dawes Act   show
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show A piece of land and the house on it  
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Mexicano   show
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William "Buffalo Bill" Cody   show
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buffalo soldier   show
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show An 1862 law that gave 160 acres of land free to anyone who agreed to live on it and improve it for five years  
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sodbuster   show
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show Formed in 1867 by farmers to meet farm families' social needs and led to formation of the economic cooperative  
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show Also called the People's Party, formed by farm groups in the 1890s to get policies that would raise crop prices  
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gold standard   show
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show Congressman who fought for reform and ran for president with the support of the Populists and the Democrats  
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